The Qwillery

Happy 1st Monday in June!

There are 6 debuts this week:

Treeborne by Caleb Johnson;

The Traitor God by Cameron Johnston;

The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War by Jane Rosenberg LaForge;

Free Chocolate (The Chocoverse 1) by Amber Royer;

The Book of M by Pend Shepherd;

and

A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal.





From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Adrift by Rob Boffard;

The Visitors by Catherine Burns is out in Trade Paperback;

Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller;

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard is out in Trade Paperback;

Chaos Queen - Blood Requiem (Chaos Queen 3) by Christopher Husberg;

Refugees (Born to the Blade Season 1, Episode 8) by Malka Older;

Outbreak (Nightshades 3) by Melissa F. Olson;

After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob Reid is out in Trade Paperback;

and

The Legion of Flame (The Draconis Memoria 2) by Anthony Ryan is out in Trade Paperback.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

June 4, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
In Darkness Transformed (e)	Alexis Morgan	PNR - Paladin Strike Team 1

June 5, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 4	David Afsharirad (Ed)	SF - Year's Best Military & Adventure Science 4
Devil's Due (h2mm)	Taylor Anderson	SF/AH - Destroyermen 12
The Wisdom of Madness	C.J. Archer	HistF - Ministry Of Curiosities 10
Adrift	Rob Boffard	SF
Brothers in Arms (ri)	Lois McMaster Bujold	SF/SO - Vorkosigan Saga 9
The Visitors (h2tp)	Catherine Burns	PsyTh
Brief Cases	Jim Butcher	UF - Dresden Files Collection
Grantville Gazette VIII	Eric Flint (Ed) Walt Boyes (Ed)	SF/TT - The Ring of Fire 8
Denver Moon: The Minds of Mars	Warren Hammond Joshua Viola	SF/CyP - Denver Moon
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded	Jason Heller	SocSci/PopCul/LC/SF/F
An Unkindness of Magicians (h2tp)	Kat Howard	DF
A Peace Divided (h2tp)	Tanya Huff	SF/AC - Peacekeeper 2
Chaos Queen - Blood Requiem	Christopher Husberg	F/DF - Chaos Queen 3
Treeborne (D)	Caleb Johnson	LF/FL
The Traitor God (D)	Cameron Johnston	F/DF/UF
The Mist (ri)	Stephen King	Th
Carrie (ri)	Stephen King	H
The Hills Have Spies	Mercedes Lackey	F/FR - Valdemar: Family Spies 1
The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War (D)	Jane Rosenberg LaForge	FairyT/FolkT/LM/MR/LF
A Panicked Premonition (h2mm)	Victoria Laurie	PM/Occ/Sup - Psychic Eye Mystery 15
Companions on the Road (ri)	Tanith Lee	F
Sparrow Hill Road (ri)	Seanan McGuire	P/UF/CF - Ghost Roads 1
Outbreak	Melissa F. Olson	P/UF - Nightshades 3
Expiration Date	Tim Powers	CF
After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley (h2tp)	Rob Reid	Satire/TechTh/SF/HU
2312 (h2mm)	Kim Stanley Robinson	SF/SO/Dys
Aurora (ri)	Kim Stanley Robinson	SF/SO/HSF
Plum Rains	Andromeda Romano-Lax	SF/AP/PA/Hist/Med
Free Chocolate (D)	Amber Royer	SF/SO - The Chocoverse 1
The Golden House (h2tp)	Salman Rushdie	LF/Satire/Political
The Legion of Flame (h2tp)	Anthony Ryan	F/DF - The Draconis Memoria 2
Koko Uncaged	Kieran Shea	SF
The Book of M (D)	Peng Shepherd	LF/NF
The Sea Peoples (h2mm)	S. M. Stirling	SF/AP/PA/AH/F - A Novel of the Change 14
The Delirium Brief (h2tp)	Charles Stross	CF/DF - Laundry Files 8
The Shimmer	Carsten Stroud	Th/SupTh/PsyTh
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself	James Swallow	SF - Star Trek: Discovery 3
Her Beautiful Monster (h2tp)	Adi Tantimedh	M - Ravi PI 2
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (e)	Sarena Ulibarri (Ed)	SF/HSF/Tech - Anthology
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising (D)	Raymond A. Villareal	CulH/H/Pol/SupTh
Finding the Texas Wolf	Karen Whiddon	PNR
The Maw	Taylor Zajonc	Sus/SF

June 6, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Meat And Salt And Sparks: A Tor.com Original (e)	Rich Larson	SF/M
Refugees (e)	Malka Older	F - Born to the Blade Season 1, Episode 8

June 7, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Ghost Stories (ri)	M. R. James	GH - The Penguin English Library
At the Mountains of Madness (ri)	H. P. Lovecraft	SF - The Penguin English Library
The Last Children of Tokyo	Yoko Tawada	Dys/LF

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade Paperback to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
Cr - Crime
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CW - Contemporary Woman
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fict - Fiction
FL - Family Life
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LegalTh - Legal Thriller
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legend and Mythology
M - Mystery
Med - Medical
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
MU - Mash Up
NF - Near Future
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy Th - Psychological Thriller
Rel - Religious
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SocSci - Social Science
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
Tech - Technological
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
TTR - Time Travel Romance
UF - Urban Fantasy
VisM - Visionary and Metaphysical
W - Western

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Happy 1st Monday in February!

There are 4 debuts this week:

Semiosis by Sue Burke;

Moonshine by Jasmine Gower;

Mission to Methone by Les Johnson (Solo Debut);

and

The Last Wolf (The Legend of All Wolves 1) by Maria Vale.




From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Of Gods and Men by Stephen Aryan

The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger (Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural 2) bu Lucy Banks;

With Blood Upon the Sand (Song of Shattered Sands 2) by Bradley P. Beaulieu is out in Trade Paperback;

Outer Earth (Outer Earth Omnibus) by Rob Boffard;

The Space Between the Stars by Anne Corlett is out in Trade Paperback;

Crossroads of Canopy (A Titan's Forest Novel 1) by Thoraiya Dyer is out in Trade Paperback;

Tarnished City (Dark Gifts 2) by Vic James;

The Gone World by Thomas Sweterlitsch;

Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift;

and

Blood Binds the Pack (Hunger Makes the Wolf 2) by Alex Wells.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

February 6, 2018

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Saint: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus	Dan Abnett	SF - Gaunt's Ghosts
Elisha Daemon	E.C. Ambrose	F/DF - Dark Apostle 5
The Complete Psychotechnic League, Vol. 2	Poul Anderson	SF
Of Gods and Men (e)	Stephen Aryan	F
Enchanter Redeemed	Sharon Ashwood	PNR
The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger	Lucy Banks	GH - Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural 2
With Blood Upon the Sand (h2tp)	Bradley P. Beaulieu	F - Song of Shattered Sands 2
Etched in Bone (h2mm)	Anne Bishop	F/DF - A Novel of the Others 5
Outer Earth	Rob Boffard	SF
Fata Morgana (h2tp)	Steven R. Boyett Ken Mitchroney	Hist
Semiosis (D)	Sue Burke	SF/AC
Lucidity (h2tp)	David Carnoy	Th
The Space Between the Stars (h2tp)	Anne Corlett	LF
Universal Harvester (h2tp)	John Darnielle	LF
Crossroads of Canopy (h2tp)	Thoraiya Dyer	F - Titan's Forest 1
1637: The Volga Rules	Eric Flint Paula Goodlett Gorg Huff	SF - Ring of Fire 25
Tallarn	John French	SF - The Horus Heresy 45
Moonshine	Jasmine Gower	F/Gaslamp
How to Stop Time	Matt Haig	Hist
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Kathryn Harkup	Sc/Hist
Wicked Attraction (e)	Megan Hart	SFR - The Protector 2
A Choice of Crowns	Barb Hendee	F/P
Captivated by the She-Wolf	Kristal Hollis	PNR
Tarnished City	Vic James	CF - Dark Gifts 2
Mission to Methone (D - Solo)	Les Johnson	SF
Into the Void	Joshua A. Johnston	SF - The Chronicles of Sarco 2
Aliens Abroad	Gini Koch	SF - Katherine "Kitty" Katt / Aliens16
That Killer Smile	Juliet Lyons	PNR - Bite Nights 3
The Faultless Blade	Ian St. Martin	SF - Lucius the Eternal 1
Into the Fire	Elizabeth Moon	F - Vatta's Peace 2
Time Shadows	Deborah D. Moore	F
Grave (h2mm)	Michelle Sagara	UF - Queen of the Dead 3
Child of a Mad God	R. A. Salvatore	F - The Coven 1
Lincoln in the Bardo (h2tp)	George Saunders	LF
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (e)	Robert Silverberg	SF - Anthology
The Bastard Legion	Gavin G. Smith	SF/SO - The Bastard Legion 1
The Year of Our War	Steph Swainston	F - Castle 1
No Present Like Time	Steph Swainston	F - Castle 2
The Gone World	Tom Sweterlitsch	SF/AP/PA
Paris Adrift	E.J. Swift	SF
Bringers of Hell	Travis S. Taylor	SF - Tau Ceti Agenda 6
Jagannath	Karin Tidbeck	LF - Collection
The Last Wolf (D)	Maria Vale	PNR - The Legend of All Wolves 1
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures	Dayton Ward	SF - Star Trek: Discovery
Blood Binds the Pack	Alex Wells	SF - Hunger Makes the Wolf 2

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint



AC - Alien Contact
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghost(s)
GN - Graphic Novel
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HSF - Hard Science Fiction
LF - Literary Fiction
LitCol - Literary Collection
LM - Legend and Mythology
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
NR - Near Future
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.

Rob Boffard (2015)

Adrift
Orbit, June 5, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

In the far reaches of space, a group of tourists board a small vessel for what will be the trip of a lifetime - in more ways than one...

They are embarking on a tour around Sigma Station - a remote mining facility and luxury hotel with stunning views of the Horsehead Nebula.

During the course of the trip, a mysterious ship with devastating advanced technology attacks the Station. Their pilot's quick evasive action means that the tour group escape with their lives -but as the dust settles, they realize they may be the only survivors . . .

Adrift in outer space, out of contact with civilization, and on a vastly under-equipped ship, these passengers are out of their depth. Their chances of getting home are close to none, and with the threat of another attack looming they must act soon - or risk perishing in the endless void of space.


For more from Rob Boffard, check out:

The Outer Earth Trilogy
Tracer
Zero - G
Impact

Outer Earth (Omnibus Edition)

Nik Korpon (2017)

Queen of the Struggle
The Memory Thief 2
Angry Robot, March 6, 2018
Mass Market Paperback and eBook, 352 pages

When freedom is brutally withheld, the people have no choice but to rise up, in this dystopian SF sequel to The Rebellion’s Last Traitor.

Overthrowing the tyrannical Tathadann government should have been cause for celebration. But as Eitan City announces its independence, soldiers from the northern province of Vårgmannskjør storm the ceremony and annex the city. The cruelties of the Tathadann soon pale beside the new occupiers’ atrocities.

Henraek finds himself resettled in the north, in a city where the people seem happy and well…  until its labour camps and enslaved spirits come to light. The rebellion must begin anew, in Eitan City and throughout Vårgmannskjør, and now the stakes are higher than ever.

File Under: Science Fiction

K.S. Merbeth (2016)

Pretty Vicious
Wastelander Short Story
Orbit, December 12, 2017
eBook, 29 pages

Pretty Vicious is a short story set in the post-apocalyptic Wastelanders universe, about a young woman on the run in a lawless, post-nuclear America.

In a lawless, post-nuclear wasteland, Dolly lives in relative comfort working as a prostitute. She's got food and shelter, which is more than most have, but she wants to step out of the frying pan and into the fire, to break free and risk life on her own in the wastes.

She escapes with a gun, a knife, and the clothes on her back. She has no knowledge of how to survive in the outside world, but anything will be better than the half-numb life she's leading.

But Dolly soon learns she'll have to become as vicious as the wastes around her if she is to make her way alone in the darkness.

"A full throttle, sand-in-your-eyes, no holds barred ride through a Mad Max-style wasteland." - Delilah S. Dawson on Bite

Lucy Banks (2017)

The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger
Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural 2
Amberjack Publishing, February 6, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 328 pages

Only a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects  for Dr. Ribero’s supernatural agency haven’t improved. Things are looking grim when the agency lands a contract which they must share with a rival agency headed by Dr Ribero’s sworn enemy, Larry Higgins. Desperate for the job, the team accepts and begins to investigate the seaside town of Lyme Regis, where elderly victims are dying.

The same mysterious clue links the horrendous deaths: the victims all see a double of themselves before dying. The teams wonder if they are dealing with a rogue doppelgänger, one that isn’t content just predicting deaths, but carrying them out as well. The victims’ connection to an ancient grave site leads to speculation that they may have disturbed a spirit more powerful than the two agencies can handle.

One thing is certain, the won’t stop unless Kester and the others can overcome their rivalry and stop this deadly spirit.

Michelle Belanger (2015)

The Resurrection Game
Shadowside / Conspiracy of Angels 3
Titan Books, October 31, 2017
     eBook, 304 pages
Titan Books, November 28, 2017
     Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages

A ritualistic murder reveals a plot by Zuriel, one of the Anakim, to steal everything that is of value to Zack—including his identity. One of Zack’s anchors in our world, a sixty-year-old woman named Marjory, is brutally killed, a message to Zack carved into her flesh. Her killer wears Zack’s face.

With the help of his allies—including Lilith, Father Frank, Detective Bobby Park, and Halley Davis—Zack digs deeper and deeper into the mystery, only to discover that thanks to his own murky past, his “brother” may be justified in seeking revenge against him.

This forces Zack to do one thing he swore never to do—go crawling back to Saliriel, the leader of the tribe of angels known as the Nephilim. The trouble is, it’s impossible to know whether Sal is friend or foe.

Rob Boffard (2015)

Outer Earth
Outer Earth Omnibus
Orbit, February 6, 2018
Trade Paperback and eBook, 1072 pages

Welcome to Outer Earth: a vivid, dangerous world where every day is a desperate struggle for survival. Who said in space no one can hear you scream?

Outer Earth is a huge space station orbiting the ruins of our planet. Dirty, overcrowded and inescapable, it's humanity's last refuge . . . and possibly its final resting place.

For there are dark forces at work on the station: forces that seek to unleash chaos. If they succeed, there will be nowhere left to run.

This omnibus edition contains all three of Rob Boffard's adrenaline-fuelled Outer Earth novels: Tracer, Zero-G, and Impact.

Happy last Monday in August!


There are 2 debuts this week -

The Forgetting Moon (The Five Warrior Angels 1) by Brian Lee Durfee;

and

Curioddity by Paul Jenkins.




And from formerly featured DAC Authors:

Harsh Gods (Shadowside / Conspiracy of Angels 2) by Michelle Belanger;

Impact (Outer Earth 3) by Rob Boffard;

The Lazarus War: Origins (The Lazarus War 3) by Jamie Sawyer;

Eagle in Exile (The Clash of Eagles Trilogy 2) by Alan Smale is out in Mass Market Paperback;

and

Shadow Falling (The Scorpius Syndrome 2) by Rebecca Zanetti.








August 29, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Poseidon & Cleito (Ke only 8/29 -11/20/16)	Andrew J. Peters	F - Poseidon & Cleito 1

August 30, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek	Mark A. Altman Edward Gross	SF - Television
Twilight Dreams	Amanda Ashley	PNR - Twilight 2
Harsh Gods	Michelle Belanger	DF/UF - Shadowside 2
The Aylesford Skull (tp2mm)	James P. Blaylock	SP - Langdon St. James 3
Impact	Rob Boffard	SF - Outer Earth 3
The Empty Ones	Robert Brockway	H - The Unnoticeables 2
Gatefather (h2mm)	Orson Scott Card	CF - Mither Mages 3
Formic Wars Trilogy Boxed Set: Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, Earth Awakens	Orson Scott Card Aaron Johnston	SF - The First Formic Wars Trilogy
The Subsidiary	Matias Celedon	Dys
Son of the Black Sword (h2mm)	Larry Correia	F - Saga of the Forgotten Warrior 1
The Forgetting Moon (D)	Brian Lee Durfee	F - The Five Warrior Angels 1
Willful Child (h2mm)	Steven Erikson	SF - Willful Child 1
Unraveled	Jennifer Estep	UF - Elemental Assassin 15
Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook: 40 Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Recipes	Joanna Farrow	SF - Cookbook
So I Married A Demon Slayer (ri)	Angie Fox Kathy Love Lexi George	PNR - Anthology
People of the Songtrail (h2mm)	Kathleen O'Neal Gear W. Michael Gear	Hist - North America's Forgotten Past 20
Sex and Death: Stories	Sarah Hall (Ed) Peter Hobbs (Ed)	SF/LF - Anthology
Frost Line (h2mm)	Linda Howard Linda Jones	RSus/P
Curioddity (D)	Paul Jenkins	SF
Made for Sin (e)	Stacia Kane	UF
The Tommyknockers (ri)	Stephen King	H
Sixth Watch	Sergei Lukyanenko	CF - Night Watch 6
Dead Man's Song (ri)	Jonathan Maberry	Th/H - A Pine Deep Novel 2
Of Beauty and Darkness	Peggy Martinez	UF/DF - A Reapers Grimm Novel 1
The Winter People	Jennifer McMahon	Th/Sus/GH
Succubus Shadows (ri)	Richelle Mead	CF - Georgina Kincaid 5
Wolves	D. J. Molles	SF/AP/PA
The Wolves of London	Mark Morris	DF/UF/CF - Obsidian Heart 1
Plunder of Gor	John Norman	F /DF - Gorean Saga 34
The Dark World	S.C. Parris	DF - The Dark World 1
Poseidon's Wake (h2mm)	Alastair Reynolds	SF/SO/AC - Poseidon's Children 3
The Lazarus War: Origins	Jamie Sawyer	SF - The Lazarus War 3
The Jersey Devil	Hunter Shea	Sus/SupTh/H
Eagle in Exile (h2mm)	Alan Smale	HistF - The Clash of Eagles Trilogy 2
Chasing the Phoenix (h2tp)	Michael Swanwick	SF/AP/PA
Legacies: Book 3: Purgatory's Key	Dayton Ward Kevin Dilmore	SF - Star Trek: The Original Series
Hell's Foundations Quiver (h2mm)	David Weber	SF - Safehold 8
Trucker Ghost Stories: And Other True Tales of Haunted Highways, Weird Encounters, and Legends of the Road	Annie Wilder (Ed)	Sup - Anthology
Shadow Falling	Rebecca Zanetti	R/SF/AP/PA - The Scorpius Syndrome 2

August 31, 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
The Key to the Coward's Spell: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Alex Bledsoe	UF
Clockwork Secrets Boxed Set	Dru Pagliassotti	SP
Early Days: More Tales from the Pulp Era	Robert Silverberg	SF - Collection

D - Debut
e - eBook
e2mm - eBook to Mass Market Paperback
e2tp - eBook to Trade Paperback
Ed - Editor
Ke - Kindle only eBook
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CW - Contemporary Women
CyP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tale
FolkT - Folk Tale
FR - Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghosts
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PNR - Paranormal Romance
R - Romance
RSus - Romantic Suspense
SF - Science Fiction
SH - Superheroes
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
UF - Urban Fantasy
YA - Young Adult
Z - Zombies

Note: Not all of these genres are represented in the book above.

Happy last Monday in June!

There are 2 debuts this week:

A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl;

and

Hope and Red by Jon Skovron.



From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Tracer (Outer Earth 1) by Rob Boffard is out in Mass Market Paperback;

Traumphysik: A Tor.Com Original by Monica Byrne;

Forevermore (Darkest London 7) by Kristen Callihan;

The Curse of the Tenth Grave (Charley Davidson 10) by Darynda Jones;

Elixir (Changeling P.I. 1) by Ruth Vincent is out in Mass Market Paperback;

and

Anti-Hero (Arthur Wallace 3) by Jonathan Wood is out in Mass Market Paperback.




Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels by formerly featured Debut Author Challenge Authors are highlighted in green.






June 28, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Straight Silver	Dan Abnett	SF - Gaunt's Ghosts 6
Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse	John Joseph Adams (Ed)	SF - Wastelands
The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume Two (Genocide, Alien Harvest)	David Bischoff Robert Sheckley	SF - Alien Omnibus
Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series	Jenna Black	CF - Nikki Glass
Tracer	Rob Boffard	SF/SO - Outer Earth 1
Forevermore	Kristen Callihan	PNR - Darkest London 7
Wolf's Empire: Gladiator	Claudia Christian Morgan Grant Buchanan	SF/SO
Forbidden	Cathy Clamp	UF - A Novel of the Sazi 1
Doctor Who: In The Blood	Jenny T Colgan	SF - Doctor Who
Legacies: Book 1: Captain to Captain	Greg Cox	SF - Star Trek: The Original Series
Angel Betrayed (ri)	Cynthia Eden	PNR - Fallen 2
The Devil in Disguise (e)	Cynthia Eden	PNR - Bad Things 1
The Eternal World (h2mm)	Christopher Farnsworth	Th
One Year After	William R. Forstchen	Th - John Matherson 2
Battlefront: Twilight Company (h2mm)	Alexander Freed	SF - Star Wars
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (ri)	Neil Gaiman	CoA
When We Were Animals (h2tp)	Joshua Gaylord	CoA
The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus (h2mm)	Terry Goodkind	F - Sword of Truth Prequel
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years	Edward Gross Mark A. Altman	TV/SF
Deadly Independents	Ted Hill	AP/PA - Independents 4
Ghostbusters	Nancy Holder	HU
Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet	Charlie N. Holmberg	HistF
The Invasion of the Tearling (h2tp)	Erika Johansen	F - Queen of the Tearling, The 2
The Curse of Tenth Grave	Darynda Jones	PM - Charley Davidson 10
The Perdition Score	Richard Kadrey	UF - Sandman Slim 8
The Bill Hodges Trilogy Boxed Set: Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch	Stephen King	Th/Sus - Bill Hodges Trilogy
The Dark Half (ri)	Stephen King	H
Lisey's Story (ri)	Stephen King	H
Collecting the Dead	Spencer Kope	M/PE
The Big Sheep	Robert Kroese	SF/Dys
Hot Lead, Cold Iron (tp2mm)	Ari Marmell	UF - Mick Oberon 1
Slade House (h2tp)	David Mitchell	LF/GH/Th
Haze and The Hammer of Darkness	L. E. Modesitt	SF
The Seascape Tattoo	Larry Niven Steven Barnes	F - Magic Goes Away
The Dark Side	Anthony O'Neill	SF/Noir
A Hundred Thousand Worlds (D)	Bob Proehl	LF/CoA
Elsewhens (tp2mm)	Melanie Rawn	F - Glass Thorns 2
Attack on Titan: Lost Girls	Hiroshi Sekon	DF/Dys - Attack on Tita
Hope and Red (D)	Jon Skovron	F - The Empire of Storms 1
The Nightmare Stacks	Charles Stross	CF - A Laundry Files Novel 7
The Annihilation Score (h2mm)	Charles Stross	CF - A Laundry Files Novel 6
Age of Myth	Michael J. Sullivan	F - Legends of the First Empire 1
The Unnaturalists (ri)	Tiffany Trent	AH - Unnaturalists 1
Bombs Away (h2mm)	Harry Turtledove	AH/SF - The Hot War 1
Icon	Genevieve Valentine	SF - The Persona Sequence 2
Elixir	Ruth Vincent	UF - Changeling P.I. 1
A Taste of Blood Wine (ri)	Freda Warrington	HistF/PNR - Blood 1
A Call to Duty (tp2mm)	David Weber Timothy Zahn	SF - Manticore Ascendant 1
A Long Time Until Now (h2mm)	Michael Z Williamson	SF/TT - Temporal Displacement 1
The Binding	Nicholas Wolff	H
The Natural Way of Things	Charlotte Wood	LF/Dys/Psy
Anti-Hero (tp2mm)	Jonathan Wood	UF/P - Arthur Wallace 3
The Swan Book	Alexis Wright	LF

June 29, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Traumphysik: A Tor.Com Original (e)	Monica Byrne	AH

June 30, 2016

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Sleeper's Castle	Barbara Erskine	HistF
Ink in the Blood	Stéphanie Hochet	F/H - Dedalus Euro Shorts
The Poisoned Quarrel: The Arbalester Trilogy 3 (Complete Edition) (e)	Duncan Lay	F - The Arbalester Trilogy
Down and Out In Purgatory	Tim Powers	UF
Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds	Alastair Reynolds	SF - Collection

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
ri - reissue or reprint


AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CyberP - Cyberpunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tale
FolkT - Folk Tale
FR - Fantasy Romance
GH - Ghost
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HistScTh - Historical Science Thriller
HistTh - Historical Thriller
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PHR - Paranormal Historical Romance
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
PopCul - Popular Culture
Psy - Psychological
R - Romance
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
Sup - Supernatural
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
Z - Zombies


Note: Not all listed genres are represented in the above releases.

Matt Bell (2013)

A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories
Soho Press, September 13, 2016
Trade Paperback and eBook, 400 pages

A Tree or a Person or a Wall gives us Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and acute takes on the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world.

A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: they are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world.

A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bell’s previously published shorter fiction—the story collection How They Were Found and the acclaimed novella Cataclysm Baby—along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power.

Rob Boffard (2015)

Impact
Outer Earth 3
Redhook, July 26, 2016
eBook, 368 pages
Redhook, August 30, 2016
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages

Following Tracer and Zero-G comes Impact, the explosive conclusion to the Outer Earth trilogy - a heart-pounding thriller set in space where the hero moves like lightning and the consequences for failure are deadly.

A signal has been picked up from Earth.

The planet was supposed to be uninhabitable. But it seems there are survivors down there - with supplies, shelter and running water. Perhaps there could be a future for humanity on Earth after all.

Riley Hale will find out soon enough. She's stuck on a spaceship with the group of terrorists that is planning to brave the planet's atmosphere and crash-land on the surface.

But when the re-entry goes wrong, Riley ends up hundreds of miles from her companions Prakesh and Carver, alone in a barren wilderness. She'll have to use everything she knows to survive.

And all of them are about to find out that nothing on Earth is what it seems . .

Catherine Cerveny (2016)

The Chaos of Luck
A Felicia Sevigny Novel 2
Redhook, June 21, 2016
eBook, 384 pages

A whirlwind thriller romance in a futuristic setting that will tug at your heartstrings while sending you on high-speed chases alongside a genetically-enhanced (and incredibly handsome...) criminal mastermind.

Felicia Sevigny makes her own luck. So it's no surprise that her new life on the Red Planet is off to a good start. She's making a living reading the fortunes of the fabulously wealthy, and making a home with Alexei, the dangerous, handsome love of her life.

Then Alexei is called off planet expectedly, mines in the astroid belt start collapsing, and an ex-lover walks back into Felicia's life. Felicia's readings predict that there is something bigger going on. Something darker and far more insidious that threatens everything she has come to love.
And as luck would have it, the cards are right for things to go horribly wrong.

Margaret Fortune (2015)

Nova
Nova 1
DAW, June 7, 2016
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Hardcover and eBook, June 2, 2015

*36:00:00*

The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.

My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war. She lived in the Tiersten Internment Colony for two years, and when they negotiated the return of the prisoners, I was given her memories and sent back in her place.

And I am a genetically engineered human bomb.

Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia’s childhood best friend.

Drawn to Michael and his family against her better judgment, Lia starts learning what it means to live and love, and to be human. It is only when her countdown clock begins sporadically losing time that she realizes even duds can still blow up. If she wants any chance at a future, she must find a way to unlock the secrets of her past and stop her clock. But as Lia digs into her origins, she begins to suspect there’s far more to her mission and to this war, than meets the eye. With the fate of not just a space station but an entire empire hanging in the balance, Lia races to find the truth before her time—literally—runs out.

[description from Hardcover]

Geoffrey Girard (2013)

first communions
Apex Publications, April 12, 2016
     eBook, 210 pages
Apex Publications, April 2017
     Trade Paperback

Geoffrey Girard first appeared in Writers of the Future and has since written and sold more than sixty short stories of dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Collected here, for the first time, are sixteen of his best, and darkest, tales.

The man who collects chips of bone from his willing victims... A legendary evil is adopted by a small, and thankful, village... The doomed girl invited to take part in a deliberate tragedy... A horrific church choir assembled after the zombie apocalypse... The boy who harvests spiders for a shadowy woman of magic... A fearsome town where the children’s nightmares are all real... The pain, price and beauty of blood and first loves...

From the curse of ancient evils to futuristic retirement homes where the dead still rule, haunted graveyards, planets of torture where all are equal, hockey-playing demon hunters, dark sorcerers battling in Algeria, and even voodoo-cursed pirates. Explore the darkest, and most majestic, extremes of us all in sixteen unique tales that will entertain, horrify and keep you thinking long after the last page is turned.

Let the communion begin…

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Translatio
Collecting James
For Restful Death I Cry
Dark Harvest
Not Fade Away
Unto the Lord a New Song
Release Me
Psychomachia
Universal Adaptor
Misdirection
What You Know
H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
Where the Shadow Ended
Dead in the Water
Crawl
First Communions
Story Notes

Cover art by Anjo Matko

Title design by Matt Davis

Dave Bara (2015)

Impulse
The Lightship Chronicles 1
DAW, December 1, 2015
Mass Market Paperback,
Hardcover and eBook, February 3, 2015

Lieutenant Peter Cochrane of the Quantar Royal Navy believes he has his future clearly mapped out. It begins with his new assignment as an officer on Her Majesty’s Spaceship Starbound, a Lightship bound for deep space voyages of exploration.

But everything changes when Peter is summoned to the office of his father, Grand Admiral Nathan Cochrane, and given devastating news: the death of a loved one. In a distant solar system, a mysterious and unprovoked attack upon Lightship Impulse resulted in the deaths of Peter’s former girlfriend and many of her shipmates.

Now Peter's plans are torn asunder as he is transferred to a Unified Space Navy ship under foreign command, en route to an unexpected destination, and surrounded almost entirely by strangers. To top it off, his superiors have given him secret orders that might force him to become a mutineer.

The crisis at hand becomes a gateway to something much more when the ship’s Historian leads Peter and his shipmates into a galaxy of the unknown -- of ancient technologies, age-old rivalries, new cultures, and unexpected romance. It’s an overwhelming responsibility for Peter, and one false step could plunge humanity into an apocalyptic interstellar war….

W. C. Bauers (2015)

Indomitable
Chronicles of Promise Paen 2
Tor Books, July 26, 2016
Hardcover and eBook, 368 pages

Promise Paen, commander of Victor Company's mechanized armored infantry, is back for another adventure protecting the Republic of Aligned Worlds.

Lieutenant Paen barely survived her last encounter with the Lusitanian Empire. She's returned home to heal. But the nightmares won't stop. And she's got a newly reconstituted unit of green marines to whip into shape before they deploy. If the enemies of the RAW don't kill them first, she just might do the job herself.

Light-years away, on the edge of the Verge, a massive vein of rare ore is discovered on the mining planet of Sheol, which ignites an arms race and a proxy war between the Republic and the Lusitanians. Paen and Victor Company are ordered to Sheol, to help hold the planet at all costs.

On the eve of their deployment, a friendly fire incident occurs, putting Paen's career in jeopardy and stripping her of her command. When the Lusitanians send mercenaries to raid Sheol and destabilize its mining operations, matters reach crisis levels. Disgraced and angry, Promise is offered one shot to get back into her mechsuit. But she'll have to jump across the galaxy and possibly storm the gates of hell itself.

[description from author's website]

Ishbelle Bee (2015)

The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl
From the Peculiar Adventures of John Loveheart, Esq., Volume 2
Angry Robot Books, August 4, 2015 (North America Print and eBook)
        August 6, 2015 (UK Print)
Trade Paperback and eBook, 336 pages

A dark and twisted Victorian melodrama, like Alice in Wonderland goes to Hell, from the author of The Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath.
 
Two orphans, Pedrock and Boo Boo, are sent to live in the sinister village of Darkwound. There they meet and befriend the magical and dangerous Mr Loveheart and his neighbour, Professor Hummingbird, a recluse who collects rare butterflies. Little do they know that Professor Hummingbird has attracted the wrath of a demon named Mr Angelcakes.

One night, Mr Angelcakes visits Boo Boo and carves a butterfly onto her back. Boo Boo starts to metamorphose into a butterfly/human hybrid, and is kidnapped by Professor Hummingbird. When Mr Loveheart attempts to rescue her with the aid of Detective White and Constable Walnut, they too are turned into butterflies.

Caught between Professor Hummingbird and the demon Angelcakes, Loveheart finds himself entangled in a web much wider and darker than he could have imagined, and a plot that leads him right to the Prime Minister and even Queen Victoria herself …

File Under: Fantasy [ Closing the Net / Heads in the Trees / The Angel-Eater / Prime Minister’s Questions ]

Rob Boffard (2015)

Tracer
Outer Earth 1
Redhook, June 28, 2016
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages
eBook, July 16, 2015

"FAST, EXHILARATING, AND UNFORGETTABLE." - Sarah Lotz, author of The Three

A huge space station orbits the Earth, holding the last of humanity. It's broken, rusted, falling apart. We've wrecked our planet, and now we have to live with the consequences: a new home that's dirty, overcrowded and inescapable.

What's more, there's a madman hiding on the station. He's about to unleash chaos. And when he does, there'll be nowhere left to run.

Tracer is perfect for fans of Hugh Howey, Preston & Child, James Rollins, Matthew Riley, and Andy Weir.

Impact
Outer Earth 3
Redhook, July 26, 2016
eBook, 368 pages
Redhook, August 30, 2016
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages

Following Tracer and Zero-G comes Impact, the explosive conclusion to the Outer Earth trilogy - a heart-pounding thriller set in space where the hero moves like lightning and the consequences for failure are deadly.

A signal has been picked up from Earth.

The planet was supposed to be uninhabitable. But it seems there are survivors down there - with supplies, shelter and running water. Perhaps there could be a future for humanity on Earth after all.

Riley Hale will find out soon enough. She's stuck on a spaceship with the group of terrorists that is planning to brave the planet's atmosphere and crash-land on the surface.

But when the re-entry goes wrong, Riley ends up hundreds of miles from her companions Prakesh and Carver, alone in a barren wilderness. She'll have to use everything she knows to survive.

And all of them are about to find out that nothing on Earth is what it seems . .

Viola Carr (2015)

The Devious Dr. Jekyll
Electric Empire 2
Harper Voyager, October 27, 2015
Trade Paperback and eBook, 464 pages

Dr. Eliza Jekyll, heroine of the electrifying The Diabolical Miss Hyde—an edgy steampunk retelling of the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—investigates a bizarre murder case in an alternate Victorian London while battling her treacherous secret half: Lizzie Hyde.

Solving the infamous Chopper case has helped crime scene physician Dr. Eliza Jekyll establish her fledgling career in the chauvinistic world of Victorian law enforcement. But the scrutiny that comes with her newfound fame is unwelcome for a woman with a diabolical secret. And there is the mercurial Royal Society agent and wolf man Remy Lafayette. Does he want to marry her, eat her, or burn her at the stake? Though Eliza is uncertain about Remy, her dark and jealous shadow self, Lizzie, wants to steal the magnetic and persistent agent, and usurp Eliza’s life.

It’s impossible to push Remy away when he tempts her with the one thing she can’t resist: a bizarre crime. The search for a bloodthirsty ritual torturer dubbed the Pentacle Killer draws them into a terrifying world of spies, art thieves, and evil alchemy, where the price of immortality is madness—or damnation—and only Lizzie’s dark ingenuity can help Eliza survive.

As Eliza and Remy race to thwart a foul conspiracy involving the sorcerous French, they must also overcome a sinister enemy who is all too close: the vengeful Lizzie, determined to dispose of Eliza for good.

TQ:  Welcome to The Qwillery. When and why did you start writing?

Rob:  I started writing when I was around seven years old, after a poem I wrote about an elephant got a really enthusiastic response from the teacher. It was essentially the earliest dopamine head I ever had, and I'm still chasing it.



TQ:  Are you a plotter or a pantser?

Rob:  Little bit of both! I wrote TRACER based on an outline, which I drew up because I had absolutely no idea how to write a novel and just figured it would be the easiest way. What I've found since then is that outlines remain really helpful for working out the core events of the story, but that I'm a lot less hesitant to go off plan and to see where the story takes me. That's been happening more and more with my writing, and I welcome it, although I'm not certain I'll ever completely abandon the outline.


TQ:  What is the most challenging thing for you about writing?

Rob:  Starting. Getting the very first line down in a writing session is absolute hell for me, and always has been. Once I get over that hump, it's normally smooth sailing, but it's really something I struggle with. It doesn't help that I'm not a morning person at all, and I somehow got into my head but I should do all my writing in the mornings. Go figure.



TQ:  You're a journalist and a rapper. How do either of these affect or not your fiction writing?

Rob:  Journalism was writing school for me. It taught me to write hard, right smart, write fast, and never miss deadlines. It helped me excise a lot of really terrible writing, simply because if I didn't, my editors wouldn't pay me. Rapping, which I still do from time to time, was even better. I still think a lot of fiction writers would benefit from learning how to write songs and put lyrics inside bars. It not only teaches you how to be creative in the constraints you've been given, but it teaches you the rhythm of words and how they sound together. Because I can rap, I can sense when words on a page aren't working together or are too similar. It really helps.



TQ:  Who are some of your literary influences? Favorite authors?

Rob:  I come from a classic mystery/thriller background, so Ed McBain and Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Chandler form a big part of my influences. I'm also one of the biggest Stephen King fans on the planet, although there are hundreds of thousands of people who would say that these days.



TQ:  Describe Tracer in 140 characters or less.

Rob:  TRACER is the craziest, fastest scifi action thriller you'll ever read. The story has a V8 engine strapped to it, and it's on full power.



TQ:  Tell us something about Tracer that is not found in the book description.

Rob:  Riley (my hero) doesn't work alone. She's part of a tracer crew: a group of scrappy underdogs who live between the levels on the station. They've got her back, but they're in just as much danger as she is...



TQ:  What inspired you to write Tracer? While Tracer is set on a space station, it is described as a thriller. Why set the novel on a space station? How Science Fictional is Tracer?

Rob:  Lot of questions there! Let's see… I wanted to set the novel on a space station because I've always been obsessed with space, and I got to thinking about what it would be like to live on a station that had been up there for a really long time. Really, it's an action thriller that just happens to be set on a space station. It's science fiction by accident, rather by design. I love scifi to death, but I never set out to write a science-fiction novel. I set out to write a novel that my sixteen-year-old self would geek out over.



TQ:  What sort of research did you do for Tracer?

Rob:  Loads. I consulted a genuine rocket scientist at a university in London to help get my space station straight. I spoke to a fusion reactor specialist to make sure that the power source was realistic. I consulted an entomologist about food sources, and a pair of freerunners about movement. Put this way: TRACER could totally happen.



TQ:  Who was the easiest character to write and why? The hardest and why?

Rob:  Riley was the easiest. I put myself into her, so it was relatively easy to work out how she reacted (although of course I exaggerated certain parts and tone down others). Darnell was probably the hardest to get right, because he's a really dark character, and while it was a lot of fun investigating his psyche it was also quite draining.



TQ:  Which question about Tracer do you wish someone would ask? Ask it and answer it!

Rob:  The one I've yet to see is whether TRACER counts as dystopian sci-fi or not. I'm not usually big into academic questions, but I quite like that one. It's easy to refer to the book as dystopia because everything is falling apart, but really, one of the key features of dystopia is an oppressive regime, and that's missing in TRACER. It's more like post-dystopia. There have been oppressive regimes in the station's history, but they were defeated, and the story in the book takes place along way down the track. It doesn't matter what government is in place: they're exactly the same boat as the people they are governing. Everybody's stuck there, and the current government, under Janice Okwembu, has more or less thrown in the towel.



TQ:  Give us one or two of your favorite non-spoilery lines from Tracer.

Rob:  I don't know if these are the best, but they're definitely my favourites...and yes, they both involve violence. So sue me.

“Who’d you get in a fight with?” Yao asks, squirming to her feet. “Everyone on the station? Did you win?”


My knuckles rip and tear and shred as his face explodes with blood and bruises.



TQ:  What's next?

Rob:  The sequels! We're wrapping them up now, and they are absolutely crazy.



TQ:  Thank you for joining us at The Qwillery.

Rob:  *High five*

Tracer
Orbit, July 16, 2015
eBook, 368 pages

IN SPACE, EVERY. SECOND. COUNTS.

Our planet is in ruins. Three hundred miles above its scarred surface orbits Outer Earth: a space station with a million souls on board. They are all that remain of the human race.

Darnell is the head of the station's biotech lab. He's also a man with dark secrets. And he has ambitions for Outer Earth that no one will see coming.

Prakesh is a scientist, and he has no idea what his boss Darnell is capable of. He'll have to move fast if he doesn't want to end up dead.

And then there's Riley. She's a tracer - a courier. For her, speed is everything. But with her latest cargo, she's taken on more than she bargained for.

A chilling conspiracy connects them all.

The countdown has begun for Outer Earth - and for mankind.

About Rob

Photo by Nicole Simpson

Rob Boffard was born in Johannesburg in 1984. He grew up reading encyclopaedias for fun (he was that kind of kid). He quickly became obsessed with science fiction, action movies and speaking very loudly to anybody who would listen.

In high school, he added a new obsession to his list: hip-hop. While studying journalism at Rhodes University in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, he was an active rap artist, and became one of the presenters on the longest-running rap radio show in Africa. After graduating in 2007, he moved to the UK with his longtime girlfriend, aiming to blow every spare cent they had on travel.

This endeavour was entirely successful, leaving them both broke but very happy. Rob did numerous jobs in the UK, including being a reader at a media analysis agency, and picking cigarettes up off a pub floor. He edited a London music magazine, got himself fired, and as a result undertook a very successful freelance career. In the past five or six years, he has written for The Guardian, Wired Magazine, Huck Magazine, the BBC, and io9. He has also worked on corporate copy for Google and Microsoft.

Rob continued to rap, and released a full album in 2011, entitled African. By this time, he had a successful second career as a sound engineer. This led to him working closely with a creative agency in London, Maple Street Studios, where he worked on campaigns for companies like EA Games, 20th Century Fox and more.

He began writing Tracer at the end of 2011, after realising that while he was quite happy being a journalist, he enjoyed the writing part most of all. It was the first book he had ever written. Orbit Books bought the rights to the trilogy, and the first novel is due to be released in July 2015.

Some more interesting facts about Rob: He permanently lost his sense of smell after falling out of a tree in Zimbabwe, aged four. He runs a hip-hop podcast. He once spent two months traveling 11,000 miles around the United States. He’s a really good cook. In junior school, he wrote to Nelson Mandela, complaining about having to study Afrikaans, and got a reply. He speaks Zulu, and French. He is the last person on the planet who collects CDs

Rob now splits his time between Vancouver, London and Johannesburg. He still loves action movies and science-fiction. He’s online at www.robboffard.com and on Twitter at @robboffard.

Cover Artist - David Palumbo

Cover Design by Jason Gurley